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(12) Her nobles shall be no more, nor shall kings be proclaimed there; all her princes are gone. (13) Her castles shall be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. (14) Wildcats shall meet with desert beasts, satyrs shall call to one another; There shall the Lilith repose, and find for herself a place to rest. (15) There the hoot owl shall nest and lay eggs, hatch them out and gather them in her shadow; There shall the kites assemble, none shall be missing its mate. (16) Look in the book of the LORD and read: No one of these shall be lacking, For the mouth of the LORD has ordered it, and His spirit shall gather them there. (17) It is He who casts the lot for them, and with His hands He marks off their shares of her; They shall possess her forever, and dwell there from generation to generation.

OK, so they have these new water fountains at work and they have bottle-fillers, which is fine. What is hilarious is that when you use the bottle filler attachment there’s an LCD readout showing how many bottles have been filled (“Plastic Bottles Saved!!1!”). I’m dying to ask building management how much plastic, etc, is in each of those smug readouts and wouldn’t it have been more eco-friendly just to have the gooseneck faucets like the teachers used to use to fill their water glasses in school.

The most important thing about being environmentally friendly is the smug feeling of superiority you get. It’s the same reason hybrids have a meter on the dashboard keeping you constantly informed as to your mpg.

We drive to SD a lot of weekends and leave at the little one’s bedtime so she sleeps in the car so it’s easier on us. Every time though, in San Clemente when traffic comes to a near stand still, some a-hole on his way to Pendleton blasts through on a loud bike and wakes her up. Because we’re in traffic, the stars and stops make it hard to get her back to sleep.

I spend the rest of my ride day-dreaming about opening my door on one of them. Not that I ever would, but it’s definitely the stuff of fantasy in my household.

Yes, I meant places like RiteAid and CVS. I don’t think even in Canada their CVSs sell any alcohol. But in Russia or anywhere in Europe a pharmacy is a place to purchase medicines. That you can buy a bottle of vodka in a pharmacy was a cultural shock.

Ah, gotcha. I know that some alcohol was tolerated under prohibition for “medicinal purposes” which is why I mentioned that. I have a hard time thinking of Walgreens/CVS/RiteAid strictly as pharmacies though. They seem to split the difference between a gas station and a convenience store and a target/k-mart.

I wouldn’t expect the little neighborhood pharmacies to have booze in them though.

If they vote no, it won’t be because of that. They were perfectly fine with the Raiders moving to LA (they have an option to do that if the Chargers don’t move) which would put two teams in LA and one in SD.

It’s controlling the image of the Shield. So far the NFL has never had to go through something like the Black Sox scandal or the Tim Donaghy issues. An actual gambling or point-shaving scandal would create a story the NFL could not control, plus they would lose most of the people who are tracking their fantasy football teams. You don’t see much in the way of fantasy tracking for pro wrestling.

The hurt-merchants have complained for years that it was unfair that women couldn’t be in the combat arms. The Light-Bringer has fixed that, so women absolutely need to stand up for selective service as well.

Former House Speaker John Boehner has described Sen. Ted Cruz as “Lucifer in the flesh” and said he had never “worked with a more miserable son of a bitch” in his life.

Now I’m torn. My desire for world chaos leads me to support Trump. But if we can get some verification on this whole Lucifer deal then I might shift for the fallen angel. Then again, Hillary did promise more blood for the blood god, which is nice. Oh damn, I wish I could just elect them all!

I was sitting at a bar and some country song was playing on the TV, I had no idea what Kenny Chesney looked like and asked my companion when E.T. got into country music. That did not go over well. I’d probably still hit it.

Whoa dude, way to be speciesist. It’s mostly that Chesney looks reasonably ok most of the time and that particular video he looked bright orange and had something going on with his neck that made it look segmented. I hope that he badly injured everyone involved with that video…

If you use Reasonable it’ll pull gravatar photos from linked email addresses I think…There should be a picture of me looking surly while holding a crepe with track lighting behind me…It was a strange time in my life.

I think Reasonable is only for Chrome (and Chrome-compliant browsers: Opera, Chromium, Dragon) and should work again (there was an update after some recent trouble). You could also try bdhr’s excellent fascr, which is for Firefox. It can be a touch fiddly compared to Reasonable, but once you get the hang of it, it’s a breeze.

Wasn’t Windows NT significantly an IBM operating system? The scuttlebut has it that, before their divorce, MS would develop one operating system version and IBM the next. Thus we got the acceptable/unacceptable cycle. of DOS and then Windows versions until they split circa Windows 3.51.

On a brighter note. After watching and waiting since last summer for the right opportunity I adopted a dog from my local SPCA. He’s a five year old 90lb Labrador sporting a jet black coat and a kind doofusy demeanor. He does have some abandonment issues mostly involving car rides, but after 5 days in my home he has adjusted well. So eager to please, not especially bright, but highly trainable. He’s going to make a fine companion once I get his body and mind into shape. I spy on him with a webcam while at work, he’s a good boy, for now…

Speaking of black labs, when I was parking my car at the supermarket today I saw a lady in a Subaru Forester with a black lab sticking its head out the window. Am I a bad person for thinking there should have been another woman in the passenger seat? 😉

My dog is in the exact same boat right now. Apparently the soft tissues in the nose are cancer prone areas for dogs and cats. My dog’s case has been slow going, steroids apparently slow the progression of the disease but it causes kidney problems and causes the dog to piss on the floor. He’s been like this for about a year and a half now, but that nose is starting to look pretty gnarly and I don’t think he’ll make it another year before we have to put him down.

Sorry to hear it. We had to put our Brittany down in Feb. after she suddenly started showing signs of multiple organ failure. We had her just under 4 years (she was probably 8 when we rescued her as a heartworm survivor).

Meg Bitton’s daughter has blonde curly hair, likes to wear makeup, and dresses in tank tops and tight jeans. So she wants to know: would you let someone who looks like her into a men’s bathroom? Probably not. The mother shared a glamorous shot of her child on Facebook, asking her friends and followers that very question.

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The caption goes on to explain that the photo is of Corey Maison and she is transgender and the photo has been edited to reflect the way she would like to be seen.

Though she was born a boy, the 16-year-old has known she was transgender for many years. Even at age two she recalls getting a truck for Christmas while one of her sisters received a Barbie and wanting nothing to do with the truck. She feels like she lived the first decade of her life in a body that didn’t belong to her. Six months ago, her mother surprised her with a gift of her first dose of hormones.

Though she was born a boy, the 16-year-old has known she was transgender for many years. Even at age two she recalls getting a truck for Christmas while one of her sisters received a Barbie and wanting nothing to do with the truck.

Though she was born a boy, the 16-year-old has known she was transgender for many years. Even at age two she recalls getting a truck for Christmas while one of her sisters received a Barbie and wanting nothing to do with the truck. She feels like she lived the first decade of her life in a body that didn’t belong to her. Six months ago, her mother surprised her with a gift of her first dose of hormones.

Jesus F. Christ, these people are nuts. This movement takes probably the most narrow-minded and simplistic view of gender roles I’ve even encountered. It was my understanding that the whole separation of “gender” and “sex” into different concepts was the idea that there was nothing inherently “female” about, say, the color pink or wearing a dress, but rather, that was what women in certain societies did and it should be perfectly fine for a male to like pink or a female to not like it.

I feel like these morons completely twist that. “Oh, I like trucks and not Barbie, therefore I am a girl.” What the fuck?

According the federal government’s anti discrimination statutes, Arabs are white. Hispanics, on the other hand, are a protected race even if they’re German Nazi immigrants from south America. I am not bullshitting.

FIG. 1 (2 views). A Somali from the tribe of Mahmud Grade, British Somaliland. This Somali represents the closest approximation to a white man found among his people. The extreme narrowness of his head and face, the straight nasal profile, and the prominence of his chin, mark him as less negroid than many of his fellows. At the same time his skin is nearly black, his hair curly but not frizzy. The type to which this Somali belongs is ancient in East Africa, as shown by the excavations of Leakey in Kenya. It is a specialized, locally differentiated Mediterranean racial form.”

“What can a man with a plain name who lived over 200 years ago tell us about life today? Who was The Real Adam Smith? And why should we care? In this two-hour, two-part documentary, Swedish author, commentator and Cato Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explores Adam Smith’s life, his ideas about morality and economics, and how the concepts he discussed in his books and lectures are still relevant today. ? 2016 / 2 episodes @ 1 hr. ea.”http://freetochoose.tv/adam_sm…..04dd5ce5ca

OT. We had to put my dog down the other day. Was playing fetch and took a fall, breaking his spine. He couldn’t move his rear legs. He pulled himself out of the grass to where we found him. He’s now buried by a large rock in front of the house, pointed toward the mailbox, so he knows when that punk ass mailman comes by.

My five-years dead shepherd is buried in a coffin five feet deep right next to the grill. I get flowers for the house every week. I take the week-old flowers out of the vases and lay them on her grave.

The kits contain a toilet seat, commode liner, 10 rolls of toilet paper that people were cautioned to “USE SPARINGLY,” along with commode chemical. The seat fits on top of the lined drum.

The kits are a reminder of “the subtle but real fear of a nuclear World War III,” said Shane Hope, an archaeologist in the county’s Historic Preservation Board.

After county officials determined they didn’t need the kits any more, they found out the Department of Defense didn’t want them back. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had no use for them, either.

The only one crying out desperately for volunteers was a once a week club for mentally handicapped adults which was run on a shoestring by a knackered out and very cranky old priest who liked a drink or three, but never once in his life took his eye off the ball. The schoolmarmish librarian who maintained the list of local charities gave me the you really don’t want to go there look, which piqued my interest. All you had to do was turn up and be sociable but most volunteers were put off by the prospect of being near potential axe murderers, or a grumpy old bastard of a priest who had absolutely no time for do-gooders on an ego trip. It was the unwanted ugly duckling of the local charity landscape. I’d roar up on an old beezer starfire motorbike that leaked more oil than the Torrey Canyon and bounce in there a bit over large and enjoyed having a laugh with the loonies, because the whole place needed some light-hearted tomfoolery, with me being Tom the Fool. I’ve never had much in the way of a big ego and occasionally enjoy being a performance tart.

The priest used to tell me off regularly for calling them things like loonies and it was part of the devilment that I’d say things like that just loudly enough and within his earshot so the loonies could enjoy the resulting telling off I got. They knew I was just being naughty and enjoyed the pure badness of me being a cheeky chappie standing up to the big boss. The priest cottoned on in the end but he was too serious to be anything other than crap at improv, so that was the finish of that particular line of fun. After a few initial arcing sparks between us, he and I formed one of those quiet friendships. At the end of the night after we’d stacked away the tables and chairs and there was only the two of us left, we’d sit in the refectory together and talk about things like faith and the possibility of redemption over a couple of glasses of his brandy. It was that rarity ? youth and old age in honest conversation and gaining an understanding of each other. But in vino there was only a reserved veritas between us, because I wouldn’t accept his offer of taking my confession, and he’d never tell me what made him such an angry man. Quid pro quo. Betrayed youth and a seething anger at everything is at end of day something which’d take some years to cool down before it could even be approached.

I admired his tarnished but still steadfast belief, scarred though it was, and he feared for me because of my destroyed faith in any notion of God, and that somehow made us both Brothers in Christ, but a Christ whose teachings I no longer could believe in. When it’s a true thing, it really doesn’t have to make much if any sense. I never said it to him, because I didn’t realise it at the time, but he was a comfort. Mentally handicapped is a very broad category; it’s a spectrum really. There was a girl in her late teens who was in the worst band of that spectrum ? just short of passing for someone “normal” but was painfully aware of how very close she’d come. The square root of nine equals something stuff was always going to be fleetingly beyond her, but the raw human needs were still there. All she wanted was a kind and loving husband, a couple of children to wrap her own love around and the simple family thing, but knew she’d probably never have it. I’d said no as gently as possible to her advances and she’d accepted that. We were just friends now. We’d always play a game of draughts which I’d taught her. As she was hovering to play a wooden disc and in that quiet offhand way people pose a question which is important to them, she asked “Why do you come here? We’re never going to get better.”

That one came deep out of left field and caught me totally off guard. The loonies, like children inside adult bodies, asked very direct questions which cut real down deep into you and never mind the quick. I came up with something lame but passable in the way of an answer which I think she didn’t quite believe, probably because I didn’t either, but it was a question I thought about for some time afterwards. If you’ve ever been on the margins, you know how it feels to be alone, friendless and isolated. Abandoned. Even in the nicest most polite way, you’re an embarrassment to your own people, and you know it. If you’ve ever been in a hopeless situation, a bit of longed for hope can keep you going until the situation might change, and that indeed had happened to me.

Theodore “Sasquatch” Edwards, 49, was arraigned Wednesday in Orange County Court and pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with 33 felonies, including first- and second-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, first-degree criminal sexual act and sex trafficking; and two misdemeanor counts of unlawful imprisonment and assault.

I make NO apologies for noticing women’s fashion. And even describing those fashion choices in industry-correct terms. But what’s in my thoughts when those flared hips go by, flashing thigh, calf and manicured toes with each step makes me 110% straight.

The state of Nevada and then the Burning Man Org just soaked us for some 7% of the ticket sale price. It’s obscene. The event, while spectacular, may indeed have outgrown itself. The standard disclaimer is that every burner becomes jaded after a few years when utopia lives up to it’s literal meaning.

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Police say a Pittsburgh man driving a stolen car ditched the vehicle and jumped into a river to escape from authorities. Police say after being captured, he fled naked from a hospital and hid inside a dumpster.

Police first chased 30-year-old James Edward Williams when a detective saw him driving a stolen car Wednesday morning. Police say Williams abandoned the car and ran through a recycling yard, where he pushed a steel shelving unit onto an officer. They say he later tried to swim away in the Ohio River.

His foot got tangled in a barge’s rope and he was taken to Allegheny General Hospital. Later Wednesday, he ran naked from the hospital and was found hiding in a garbage container.

If honestly would rather seem him on the Supreme Court. He is really perfect for the job. Rather than four or eight years as President, i would like to see him spend 30 years torturing and trolling Progs from the bench.

I’m a little puzzled I haven’t heard more about Cruz’ pick of Fiorina. I assumed he announced a VP pick at all to flog his campaign a little and picked Fiorina specifically to boost his chances in the Cali primary (won’t do him any good in the general) and – more importantly – I figured Cruz figured Trump couldn’t help but take the bait by insulting Fiorina in the most derogatory sexist manner imaginable and thereby upping Trump’s already yuuge negatives. It’s what a weasel like Cruz would do, at any rate. It wouldn’t surprise me if Cruz himself didn’t arrange the endorsement from Boehner.

No NFL team wants to go to Las Vegas, really. If you had given me an $x million signing bonus when I was 22 and sent me to Vegas, I’d have lost it all and been in jail by the end of the first week.

UNLV is building a new stadium on campus. They’ve been a basketball school for so long, but they’ll be going big into football in the future. Considering the size of the town and the lack of any local pro sports teams, they should be like Ohio State.

Part of the reason they aren’t is because their football stadium is on the other side of the planet from the school. That soon won’t be a problem.

“That may soon change if a proposed $1.2 billion, 65,000-seat football stadium near campus is built. Plans call for it to be paid for by the Las Vegas Sands Corp. and with taxes on visitors.

The school already bought the land. If the Raiders put up $500 million, too . . .

It’s just that I don’t think any NFL team really wants to come to Vegas. . . . or NHL team, or NBA team, or MLB team. The players would get into less trouble in Tijuana. The only reason UNLV players don’t get in so much trouble is because they don’t have any money.

And it is not about ticket sales. it is about ad revenue and the size of the media market. Las Vegas is basically Oklahoma City or Albuquerque with a bunch of casinos stuck on the road out of town. It is less of an NFL worthy city than Jacksonville.

Incidentally, for those of you who don’t follow hockey (and I think it’s great that gay people participate in this forum), the puck drops tonight at 8pm eastern on what may shape up to be the playoff series of the century.

John Boehner is a lying two faced sorry son of a bitch in my humble opinion.

That lying basted was lying to the American people telling them he was gonna do all within his power to stop Obamacare while at the same time he was busted for colluding with Obama to exempt Congress, their falies, their staff and their families.

Someone in Obama’s office leaded hi email to Obama say that it was ok with him if Obama tld the press that he was chewing Boehner out , not colluding with him against American citizens.

“I actually think if we want equality in this country, if we want women to be treated precisely like men are treated and that they should not be discriminated against, we should be willing to support a universal conscription,” [Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif.] said.”

Or you might consider not conscripting *anyone,* and not registering *anyone* for the draft. But the Congresspeople don’t seem interested in that version of equal rights.

And I noticed that some defenders of registering women still pull the same BS line of “they could be assigned to non-dangerous positions.” Stop. Nobody believes that, I doubt you believe it yourselves.

Drafting women means women on the front lines. Haven’t we seen this movie before, with every variety of progressive foolishness? It’s goes straight from “ha ha that will never happen you paranoid weirdo” to “of course it has to happen and you’re a bigot if you object.”

Being recognized by the government is more important than liberty. It’s gotten to the point that if there was a law that only hung men for counter-revolutionary thought, someone would call that sexist and demand women be hung as well because women can have counterrevolutionary thoughts too that are just as powerful as a man!

A preserved skull recently discovered in Argentina belongs to an enormous dinosaur called Sarmientosaurus musacchioi, paleontologists announced in a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Sarmientosaurus could provide a lot of new insight into a class of dinosaurs called Titanosaurs.

State District Judge Elizabeth E. Coker–who sits on the bench over Trinity, Polk and San Jacinto counties–has resigned under fire in a texting controversy, according to a voluntary agreement with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

It stems from complaints and media stories alleging that Coker “had engaged in improper ex parte text communications with Polk County Assistant District Attorney Kaycee Jones while Judge Coker presided” over a criminal trial in August of 2012.

With those complaints, “the commission commenced an investigation into allegations that Judge Coker used Assistant District Attorney Jones to privately communicate information” about the case “to suggest questions for the prosecutor to ask during the trial” among other issues.

Various Muslim students and their allies trap the (Jewish) President of San Diego State University in a police car and won’t let him leave until he apologizes for not being supportive enough of his kidnappers.

Student leader Mustapha Alemi says, “the fact that it took two to three hundred students to block his car to have a conversation with us is incredibly disrespectful.”

And “SDSU senior Osama Alkhawaja said “what is lacking from our leadership is courage.”

I wonder if you can drive straight out of a mob or if you have to rock backward and forward like you do when you’re stuck in mud or slush. This seems like it would’ve been a good opportunity to find out…for science!

He should have told them to go fuck themselves and walked right through them. Let them attack him. The beating would suck but only for a while. Meanwhile they would be going to jail and their cause completely discredited. More than likely, they wouldn’t have had the balls to do anything and his walking through them with have shown them to be the cowardly pieces of shit they are.

Not that I’m saying they’re right to do that, mind, but here’s a little context

The protesters were critical of an email Hirshman sent out to all students on Tuesday regarding a number of posters made by the David Horowitz Center for Freedom, which named specific SDSU students and said they “have allied themselves with Palestinian terrorists to perpetuate BDS and Jew Hatred on this campus.”

In the email Hirshman wrote: “First, we recognize and fully support the rights of all parties to voice their positions on political issues, whether supportive or critical. We also understand that when parties adopt a specific political position they become responsible for their actions and these actions may produce criticism.”

I don’t know for sure but it seems to me that an organization which publicly names students and makes unfounded allegations of criminal activity and bigotry without any more evidence that association with a particular group treads the line of libel. And thus deserving of more than “Well, whattaya gonna do?”

These people crossed the line big-time opting for violence, don’t get me wrong.

How is it a) unfounded and b) criminal? It is a fact that both the BDS movement and Students for Justice in Palestine have publicly expressed their solidarity with Hamas, which in and of itself is no crime. It is also a fact that the BDS movement and allied groups advocate the social and economic exclusion of individuals based on their ethnic identity and/or citizenship, regardless of their political views on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

To be quite frank, I’d love to see a libel charge against Horowitz over this. They’d lose badly, and the fact that they aren’t going that route tells me that they realize that.

“We made the decision to form ‘Jew Hatred on Campus’ to expose anti-Semitic student groups who support or are associated with known terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah, and which call for the destruction of the Jewish State,” said Jew Hatred on Campus founder, David Horowitz. “These activities against Jewish and pro-Israel students would not be tolerated by university administrators if they were committed against students from any other ethnic group. But because Jews are the target, they have been largely ignored. It is an obligation of university administrators to recognize and condemn acts of anti-Semitism by campus hate groups and to withdraw campus privileges and university support from them.”

This is apparently the part where he called them terrorists and made them cry.

You are not living in the real world if you think these lefty dolts are not going after Israel. They would be idiots not to fight back.

How do you know they are unfounded. Progs really don’t care that the mask has slipped these days.

This is a fight for survival for Israel and these fucktards are openly questioning their right to exist.

I’m not religious or Jewish, I just look at what society looks like in various places. Looking at the middle east the only functional society is in Israel. Are they perfect, certainly not, but if you think Hamas would be a viable alternative you are delusional.

Other than oil, Israel produces more economic value than the rest of that area combined. If arab countries had a brain they would collaborate with Israel to spread the wealth and jobs that economic developement bring.

But that ain’t gonna happen. I have no problem supporting Israel, they are really the only hope that part of the world has.

Obama becomes the first President in history to not have a single year of 3% growth during his term. Even FDR and Carter managed that. It is just mind boggling what a failure he has been. He has been a bigger failure than even his worst critics thought he would be.

There are more important things than money. He’s done more than anyone to fight global warming, and he killed Osama bin Laden and ended the Iraq War.

Profit at the expense of everyone’s well-being doesn’t make the world a better place! I see this smaller ‘growth’ (not moral growth, not growth that actually matters) as slowing the rate of increase of income inequality. It’s a good thing.

That might might be the dumbest thing I have ever read. If you honestly think low growth is a good thing and does anything but harm the poor and middle class more than it does the rich, you are so stupid and delusional it is difficult to even know what to say. It just leaves one dumbstruck that such a person could exist.

My mistake. But you can’t satirize these people. I could post that word for word on the Huffpost and I would be well on my way to being a “super user” within the half hour. Satire and parody are dead. The Progs killed them.

Oi, Playa told you to email me a few weeks ago regarding hanging out with your fellow socal degenerates, no? There was discussion of booze+food for cinco de mayo. Los Doyers is poorly executing planning of it. Shoot me an email if you’d be interested in joining or hearing about future socializing in meatspace. Email is linked in the handle.

It always makes me feel mean. Once in a while I will go over and troll the conservatives on PJ Media or national Review. I always feel a little dirty afterwards. They are just dumb as posts. It isn’t fair to go over and kick them around.

It’s why I always come back here. Its the only place I know where I feel like I am picking on someone my own size.

1) this is entirely fucking made-up. No one has had time to Poll either the populace or the leadership of “America’s Allies” Quotes from a handful of former-Prime-Ministers and Diplomatic-bureucrat-elites do not a consensus make.

2) What does “retreat from the world” even mean, in practice? Next time you hear some journalist utter this euphemism, replace what they just said with “Stop Paying For Europe’s Security infrastructure”, and “Stop Pretending Other People’s Problems are Our Problems”…. and see how more/less appealing it actually is.

After the scare headline, and pearl-clutching comments from the Brussels types… you get little tidbits like this =

A major theme — that more NATO allies should spend at least 2 percent of their economic output on defense — is one that has also been taken up by the Obama administration itself, including repeatedly during the president’s visit to Europe last week.

This doesn’t stop everyone and their foreign minister from declaring “certain doom” if America should ever alter the status quo at all.

And if that reporter thinks the way to sell the public on international engagement is to say that it is inconsistent with putting America’s interests first, they have a pretty fucked up idea on how to get something to appeal to the public.

That article is an example of Trump’s genius at trolling the media. Trump knew that saying “America first” was going to inspire the media to write a ton of articles just like that. So what message does the voting public get from this article? Basically that anyone who doesn’t vote for Trump is doing so because they put other country’s interests over the US’s interests. That story might as well be a paid ad for the Trump campaign.

2) What does “retreat from the world” even mean, in practice? Next time you hear some journalist utter this euphemism, replace what they just said with “Stop Paying For Europe’s Security infrastructure”, and “Stop Pretending Other People’s Problems are Our Problems”…. and see how more/less appealing it actually is.

It does remind me a bit of when GWB was elected the first time (2000) before 9/11 was a twinkle in anyone’s eyes. I remember a stream of panicky articles from European pundits demanding that America needs to remain “engaged” with the world, because (and this one killed me) one guy said the world needed “more America, not less America”.

Obama sort of mentions it and then drops it. They are worried that someone might actually follow through on it.

Although, frankly, I also better at night knowing that the European militaries are impotent; they have fucked over the world far too often, and they are still just a bunch of socialists and fascists at heart.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office has received subpoenas from both state and federal prosecutors, according to the mayor’s chief legal adviser, as investigators pursue a series of coordinated corruption probes that extend from City Hall to the police department.

News of the subpoenas came days after the leaking of a January report from the state Board of Elections that accused the mayor and others of intentionally evading campaign finance contribution limits in 2014.

The memo, authored by the board’s top investigator, recommended state prosecutors examine whether de Blasio and his allies violated election law as they steered funds to candidates in an unsuccessful effort to capture the state Senate for Democrats

The idea of NY state politicians like Sheldon Silver and Bill DeBlasio actually going to jail? Sends shivers of joy up my spine.

I find it hard to believe I have lived well enough to deserve to see the day that DeBlasio goes to prison. It would be one of the great gifts God has ever given me to see that son of bitch perp walked out of the Manhattan Federal Courthouse.

It would be interesting… if, say, the DoJ really does try and nix the Clinton investigation… if various branches of the FBI decide to retaliate by engaging in country-wide sweeps of political offices and bringing the hammer down on anyone and everyone.

It would be an interesting “game of thrones” type internecine-bloodletting.

I have thought that for a while. If Hillary walks, the FBI and Intel communities are going to go insane. The FBI and the career DOJ people both will be desperate to get some kind of political hide to try and undo the damage letting Hillary walk will do to their credibility with the public. If I am your typical crook big City Democrat politician or Congressman, I am not liking that prospect one bit.

Granted, I know as much about the inner workings of the Justice Department as I do about Emu breeding, but what’s the basis for this? I mean, this idea that the FBI really really really wants to nail Clinton on something and are being stymied by the Obama administration or other internal factions. I’m not saying it’s *not* true, I’m just curious what the basis for it is beyond the obvious wish-fulfillment allure.

The basis for it is that what Hillary did so appalling that letting her walk will completely destroy the moral or DOJ and the entire federal LEO and Intel communities. They routinely prosecute people and send them to jail for doing things one one hundredth as bad as what Hillary did. And they take people’s clearances and summarily end people’s careers for doing things that are ten times less serious that that.

Everyone in those places has a security clearance and knows the consequences of breaking the national security laws. If Hillary walks, they will all know the entire system is a joke and it will be impossible to get anyone to believe in it or have any respect for the national security laws anymore. It would be a complete disaster.

And the career people in those agencies know that and are one of the last groups of people in government who actually care about their institution more than they care about their political party. For this reason, it is incredibly important to them that Hillary not be allowed to walk. If she is, there will be hell to pay.

A lot of this ^. FBI people grow up watching all the good cop shows too. We aren’t a banana republic. People sign on to be law enforcement because they want to enforce the laws. Having someone they don’t have a personal investment in skirt the law for something they couldn’t skirt the law on is going to piss them off.

The FBI careerists are super-pissed about the light touch the DOJ took with Petraeus. This is many times more egregious, so I’m guessing they’d be pretty pissed about this as well, were it to be whitewashed.

Petreus personally ended the careers of otherwise fine Army officers for committing adultery. Then that SOB parades his girlfriend in front of everyone and leaks classified information to her. Yeah, the Petreus thing really pissed a lot of people off.

The European Union would insist on completing a swift divorce with Britain before starting to forge any new relationship if UK voters decide in June to leave the 28-member bloc.

The stark view from Brussels means Britain could initially be cut adrift without any preferential relationship with its biggest trade partner. It contrasts with suggestions by “Leave” campaigners that London could secure a special status preserving market access before it formally leaves the EU.

As far as I can tell all it means is that there would be a year or two of “huffy dispute” before their respective trade ministers decided on some deal which probably made things much the same as they had been before. (e.g. diplomatic “make-up-sex”)

“He had a flash drive, said he had information he wanted to get on the air. He compared it to the information found in the Panama Papers. I told him, ‘I can’t let you in, you’re going to have to leave the flash drive here and slide it through the opening.’ He wouldn’t do that. Apparently he had made some threats before,”

Okay, maybe panda boy overreacted, but have you ever loaned out a flash drive? You never get the goddamn thing back.

I think it depends on context. If they’re criticizing the media for “glorifying gun violence” or whatever while acting in movies that feature a hero gunning down bad guys left and right, that would strike me as hypocritical. But just thinking the law is an appropriate means of stopping those movies from being acted out in the streets, while wrongheaded in my opinion, is not hypocritical on its face.

To use a very bad analogy, I don’t think it’d be hypocritical to play Hamlet while privately voicing the opinion that regicide is a bad idea.

The ’70s game show “Match Game” is coming back, with Alec Baldwin picking up the long, skinny microphone originally held by Gene Rayburn as host, Vulture reports. The new “Match Game” will air for 10 episodes this summer on Sundays at 10/9c on ABC as part of a game show block that will also include “Celebrity Family Feud”and “The $100,000 Pyramid.”

The new “Match Game” will have the classic format of contestants trying to guess how the celebrity panelists answered the jokey fill-in-the-blank-questions. No celebrity guests have been confirmed, but it’s probably safe to assume that frequent ’70s guest Betty White will return. Panelists back in the day often included Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Reilly (maybe we’ll see Baldwin’s impression of that game show stalwart).

“Match Game’s” best-known incarnation ran from 1973 to 1979 on CBS. It was last revived for a short stint in syndication from 1998 to 1999.

Match Game will premiere June 26 on ABC.

He’s sort of the anti-Gene Rayburn but I did love watching reruns of Match Game on Game Show Network. .

“San Jose High badminton coach held for allegedly dating student” […] “Loc Nguyen was arrested at the campus Wednesday and taken to Santa Clara County Main Jail, where she was booked on suspicion of annoying or molesting a minor.”http://www.sfgate.com/crime/ar…..382425.php

They’re abolishing the title “master” which in this context has nothing to do with slavery.

But they’re keeping the name of Calhoun College, which was named after John C. Calhoun, a zealot who admitted slavery was contrary to the Declaration of Independence…therefore so much the worse for the Declaration of Independence!

“The proposition to which I allude, has become an axiom in the minds of a vast majority on both sides of the Atlantic, and is repeated daily from tongue to tongue, as an established and incontrovertible truth; it is, that “all men are born free and equal.” I am not afraid to attack error, however deeply it may be intrenched, or however widely extended, whenever it becomes my duty to do so, as I believe it to be on this subject and occasion.

“Taking the proposition literally (it is in that sense it is understood), there is not a word of truth in it…..

“If we trace it back, we shall find the proposition differently expressed in the Declaration of Independence. That asserts that “all men are created equal.” The form of expression, though less dangerous, is not less erroneous.”

“While you were holding your dream and girl friend in your single bed, I peddled kneaded erasers smelling of Coke at an extortionate price with a toothless old man in the dense forests of South America.”

And this is CHAPTER ONE. Damn am I happy I didn’t learn English in Japan.

I think the Japanese culture celebrates the absurd through their language. It’s a very conformist kind of society, but superstitious, and enjoys the absurd in their own way, through flowery speech. It’s almost sarcasm, but not really, because they mean it, they just appreciate the …. Something or other. Damn whiskey. Or the pot. But you know what I mean.

One idea, which was actually adopted, is in San Francisco (I hope Sevo won’t mind me stepping on his toes):

“San Francisco’s formula business ordinance, first enacted in 2004, requires business with more than 11 locations worldwide to apply for a special use permit in order to locate in the city’s neighborhood commercial districts. One of the criteria for such a permit is how many businesses of that type are already in the district, and whether the applicant business would add something that the neighborhood doesn’t already have. Between 2005 and 2013, according to ISLR, San Francisco received 104 applications to open formula retail stores and restaurants, rejecting about a quarter of them.”

The other idea is being floated in New York City, but so far hasn’t been able to pass though support is growing:

“the Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA)…aims to balance the power dynamics between landlords and business tenants. Among other measures, it mandates binding arbitration to settle cases where landlords justifiably must up rent by a certain amount to cover higher property taxes or maintenance costs, but tenants oppose exorbitant rent increases that may reflect irrational speculation as opposed to the economics of a given location.

“”SBJSA is not saying you can’t make a profit, it’s just saying what’s reasonable,” says Ahmad El-Najjar, a political consultant with TakeBackNYC, an all-volunteer, public campaign that has been organizing to pass SBJSA. They now have around 7,000 member business owners, and have helped gain support for the bill from a majority of city council members.”

“What exactly is happening in Ukraine? [Bishop Boris] Gudziak [of the UGCC Deparatment of External Affairs] gives some clear answers. Some ten thousand have been killed. Tens of thousands have been maimed by the war. It is estimated that those suffering from post-traumatic stress is in the hundred of thousands. The amount of infrastructure destroyed equals in value the annual budget of the Ukrainian government.

“Estimates of people affected by the war range up to five million people. Some two million left the country. Another two million are internally displaced refugees, and another million suffer in place….

“The average salary of Ukrainians today is one third of what it was two years ago before the start of the war. The ousted president and his corrupt regime embezzled some 50 billion dollars by most accounts, leaving the country and especially its military in a sad state.”

(Even if you’re not in Europe, you can always click my handle and make a donation through CNEWA, which scores high on Charity Navigator.)

So I generally go with any pollers that call me. The last one had a rough time with pronouncing words like exceptional (“exponential compared to other nations”) and asked me if I’d vote for Greg Johnson of the Librarian Party…

I have to deal with this dipshittery, see. The protocol was elicit – the dishwasher had to sit with the management until their shit was done. Very explicit. Chain, see, little room for questioning policy.

Excpet for thoe mother fuckdr who wouldlet the dis ul, “So you now I kow it’s totaly my deal to stay wth managemrnt 8niti thw shoft s coxed. But, tano, I have a kid. And tey have to be t schol! SCHOOL. Masive ob,igatkns, yo. Massivw,”

I find it interesting that Reason writes that they are hoping that the Dems might have a “principled non-interventionist stance” which is odd since when in the Democrats entire history have they had a principled non-interventionist stance? Not in 1864, 1916, 1940 or 1968 or now.

Not to mention I do find it interesting that Reason is hoping for some modus vivendi with the anti-war left. Judging by the state of campus radicalism it seems to be pretty non-existent. Oh and the ones that are now are more likely to be hard core socialists/communists and apologists for foreign dictatorships (e.g. Glenn Greenwald). Add in the desire to appeal to “socially liberal” businesspeople at the same time and such an alliance looks to be as successful as the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact or the US-UK-USSR WWII alliance.

Like the US-USSR alliance war alliance, the friendship only lasts as long as the common enemy does. After the election, the alliance is over. Not a very good analogy though, as the Reasonoid alliance with the left is kind of like an alliance between Sri Lanka and the Soviet Union.

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